Pedro Laín Entralgo Explained

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The Most Excellent

Pedro Laín

Birth Name:

Pedro Laín Entralgo

Birth Date:

15 February 1908

Birth Place:

Urrea de Gaén (Teruel), Spain

Death Place:

Madrid, Spain

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Office:	Seat j of the Real Academia Española
Term Start:	30 May 1954
Term End:	5 June 2001
Predecessor:	Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart
Successor:	Álvaro Pombo

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Office:	Director of the Real Academia Española
Term Start:	2 December 1982
Term End:	December 1987
Predecessor:	Dámaso Alonso
Successor:	Rafael Lapesa

Pedro Laín Entralgo (15 February 1908 – 5 June 2001) was a Spanish physician, historian, author and philosopher. He worked, fundamentally, on medical history and anthropology.^[1]

Biography

He was born in Urrea de Gaén (Teruel, Spain) in 1908. He obtained the degrees of Medicine and Chemical Sciences in the Central University of Madrid, and PhD in Medicine with the dissertation: "El problema de las relaciones entre la medicina y la historia" (The problem of the relationships between medicine and history".

During the Spanish Civil War he contributed to Arriba España. In the context of the Spanish Civil postwar period, he became an important member of the intellectual circle of the Falange. In 1942 he obtained the first chair of History of Medicine in the country, at the Central University of Madrid. He held the chair until 1978 when he retired as professor emeritus. In 1951, during the period of Joaquín Ruiz-Jiménez as Ministry of education, he became rector of the institution, creating a circle of certain political openness. He remained the rector until 1956.^[1]

He was a member of the Royal Spanish Academy, the Royal National Academy of Medicine (elected 1946) and of the Royal Academy of History (elected 1956).^[1] He obtained the Prince of Asturias award for Communication and Humanities in 1989 and was awarded with the Menéndez Pelayo International Prize in 1991.

Philosophical work

His work is very varied and extensive. Regarding his historical-medical work, his works on medicine in classical Greece, his history and theory of clinical history and his works on Santiago Ramón y Cajal stand out. In addition, he coordinated a 7-volume, monumental Historia Universal de la Medicina (1972–1975) (Universal History of Medicine), in which not only all the Spanish specialists participated, but also renowned foreign historians of medicine.^[2]

He published several books on philosophical anthropology in which he analyzed the profound nature of the human being and the current history and theory of the problem of body and soul.

Disciples

He was able to attract a good number of physicians around him who began to professionalize the History of Medicine (and, later, of science) in Spain. They stand out, among them, Luis S. Granjel (1920–2014), professor at the University of Salamanca, José María López Piñero (1933–2010) in Valencia, Juan Antonio Paniagua Arellano (1920–2010) in Navarra and Agustín Albarracín Teulón (1922–2001) and Diego Gracia Guillén (born in 1941), at the Complutense University of Madrid.

Books

Reconciliar España. Editorial Triacastela. 2010. .
Escritos sobre Cajal. Editorial Triacastela. 2010. .
España como problema. Galaxia Gutenberg; Círculo de Lectores. 2006. .
El médico y el enfermo. Editorial Triacastela. 2003. .
Qué es el hombre: evolución y sentido de la vida. Círculo de Lectores. 1999. . (Premio Internacional de Ensayo Jovellanos).
Historia universal de la medicina. Masson. 1998. .
El problema de ser cristiano. Círculo de Lectores. 1998. .
Idea del hombre. Círculo de Lectores. 1997. .
Alma, cuerpo, persona. Galaxia Gutenberg. 1997. .
La Generación del 98. Espasa-Colección Austral. 1997 (2ª edición). .
Ser y conducta del hombre. Espasa-Calpe. 1996. .
Cuerpo y alma. Estructura dinámica del cuerpo humano. Espasa-Calpe. 1996. .
Creer, esperar, amar. Galaxia Gutenberg; Círculo de Lectores. 1993. .
El cuerpo humano. Teoría actual. Espasa-Universidad. 1989. .
Teoría y realidad del otro. Alianza. 1988. .
La medicina actual. Seminarios y ediciones s.a. 1973.
Sobre la amistad. Espasa-Calpe. 1972.
La espera y la esperanza. Historia y teoría del esperar humano. Revista de Occidente. 1957.
Historia de la Medicina (Medicina moderna y contemporánea). Científico Médica. 1954.
Los valores morales del Nacionalsindicalismo. Editora Nacional. 1941.

References

Orringer, Nelson. Pedro Lain Entralgo (1908-2001). In Memoriam. The Xavier Zubiri Review. 3. 5–6. 2001.
Jarcho, Saul. Saul Jarcho. 1973. Book Review of Historia Universal de la Medicina. Tomo II: Antigüedad Clásica, edited by P. Laín Entralgo. Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine. 49. 8. 736–741. 1807070.

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Balaguer Perigüell, Emili (2002). «Don Pedro Laín Entralgo, in memoriam». Dynamis. Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque Historiam Illustrandam (22): 509–514. .
Gracia Guillén, Diego (2010). Voluntad de comprensión: la aventura intelectual de Pedro Laín Entralgo. Triacastela (Madrid) / Instituto de Estudios Turolenses (Teruel). .
López Piñero, José María (2005). Pedro Laín Entralgo y la Historiografía Médica. Real Academia de la Historia. .
Morente Valero, Francisco (2011). «Más allá del páramo. La historia de los intelectuales durante el franquismo». En: Carmen Frías, José Luis Ledesma y Javier Rodrigo (Eds.). Reevaluaciones. Historias locales y miradas globales. Actas del VII Congreso de Historia Local de Aragón (Zaragoza: Institución Fernando el Católico): 41–76. .
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